Yeah. Nineteen dead so far (no final count yet), lots of people hurt, at
     least $11B worth of property damage (again, not final figure); 300,000
     people still without electricity; it was a rough one.

     Quote from CNN:

                              ...............

     Despite the damage, Florida Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings said that her state was
     better prepared for Charley's onslaught than it had been in 1992, when
     Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm with winds topping 155 mph, crushed
     the southern tip of the state from east to west.

     "Where we are today is about where we were two weeks after Andrew,"
     Jennings said.

                                 ...............

     At this point you can hit up Google for all the gory details and then
     some; in addition to early storms it's been a heavy season so far too. --
     Heather

     My boat took some damage... from do-gooders without a clue - none from the
     hurricane. Nothing major; I spent last night on a tilt (50 degrees or so
     at 4 a.m. - low tide) and had to get her off the shoal this morning, then
     spent most of today grappling for my anchors (one line chafed through, and
     the idiots^Whelpful folks who moved her managed to lose a 45-lb. anchor
     and 300' of chain over the side.) Haven't found them yet - but hooked onto
     a big Fisherman-type anchor that somebody else lost here during the last
     few years, so that's what I'll be using temporarily.

     All in all, normal life in the hurricane zone. :)
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     * [52]Converting a VCD file to MP3
     * Netkit --or--
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     * bug in bash --or--
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     * s... --or--
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[LG 105] 2c Tips #5: Open X-change

   Jimmy O'Regan ([58]The LG Answer Gang)

   Serendipity - Linux Today are carrying a story about Open-Xchange Server,
   the engine of [59]SuSE's Openexchange Server, today - Novell have convinced
   the owners to GPL it. Since it's Java based, it'll be accompanied by their
   Java Application Server too.

   It'll  be available to download at [60]http://www.Open-Xchange.org and
   [61]http://www.openexchange.com at the end of the month.

     They consider it working but the feature set isn't frozen. The version
     name is "Janus" and they've numbered it 0.7.0 since they hope to cram in a
     few more features before 1.0.0. -- Heather
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Converting a VCD file to MP3

   Triyan W. Nugroho ([62]iyan_kid from yahoo.com)

   Hello Gang, here is my tips..

   There is an easy way to convert VCD (Video CD) file into MP3. What you need
   are just MPlayer and Lame. MPlayer is used to convert the VCD file to WAV by
   using the PCM audio output, and then you can convert the WAV file to MP3 by
   using Lame.

   First, you have to convert it to WAV by using the command:

     $ mplayer -ao pcm /path/to/vcd/avseq01.dat